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UPDATED: The Green Party has overtaken the Moderates to become Sweden's second largest party in the EU election. Newcomers Feminist Initiative and Sweden Democrats have taken their first ever European parliament seats.

The Green Party climbed to 15.2 percent of the Swedish vote the European Parliament elections on Sunday, making it the second largest party after the Social Democrats, who received 24.5 percent of the vote.

The night also ushered two smaller and new parties into the union's elected assembly. The Sweden Democrats (SD) took home 9.9 percent of the votes, gaining its first two seats, while Feminist Initiative took its first seat as the party received 5.3 percent of the vote.

"No one will be carried away with manic depression or extreme joy over these results," he told The Local. "But it will be a very different story with the national elections in September."

"In general, it's been a good day for small parties and the feminists made the real breakthrough. Now, Sweden's 20 mandates will be even more thinly spread among nine parties compared to eight last time around," he said.